Director - Programs ( Community Health )
- Americares India
- 12 - 15 years
- Mumbai
- 4 years ago
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Job Description
About Americares India Foundation (www.americaresindia.org; www.americares.org)
Registered as a public charitable trust in 2006, Americares India is a health-focused relief and development organization that responds to people affected by poverty or disaster with life-changing health programs, medicine, and medical supplies.
When disaster, poverty, disease, or policy causes health crises, we deliver medicines, medical supplies and humanitarian aid to a trusted network of NGOs, hospitals and health care providers across India serving vulnerable populations. We also create and support programs that increase health worker capacity, improve clinical quality, and provide more access to health care for underprivileged populations across India.
Since 2006, Americares' work has been characterized by compassion, expertise, quick response, and aid for people who need it. Our core programs include Emergency Programs, Access to Medicine, Community Health, and Clinical Services. Our program foot-print is across 27 states in India and over the past decade, we have delivered aid worth more than INR 600 Mio through our various program initiatives.
OUR VISION
A world in which all people have pathways to health & opportunity
OUR MISSION
Americares saves lives & improves health for people affected by poverty or disaster so they can reach their full potential
OUR VALUES
C- Collaborative A- Accountable R- Responsive E- Effective
Americares India Strategic Path FY18-FY 27
In 2016, Americares India completed our first 10 years of operations in India helping people live longer and healthier lives. In our second decade, we aim to strengthen our position as a health-focused relief and development organization that responds to people affected by poverty or disaster with life-saving health programs, medicine, and medical aid.
OUR STRATEGY:
Helping urban health centres thrive (micro)
Building health-conscious communities:
Health outcomes of the urban poor living in crowded slums is compromised due to lack of awareness, access, and cultural misconceptions. Lack of access to safe drinking water and poor hygiene practices lead to communicable disease (CD) burden while urban lifestyle is leading to the rising burden of non-communicable diseases (NCD), doubling the disease burden.
Americares works with the communities to address issues around awareness, access, and misconceptions through preventive, promotive, and curative care. Our urban Mobile Health Centre (MHC) program provides access to quality primary care(A), Behaviour change communication (B), Capacity building of local healthcare providers (C), and Development of referral linkages (D).
The urban School Health Program (SHP) within municipal schools is modeled to encourage healthy behaviors and promote disease prevention among children from urban slums. The program aims to nurture school children as the health ambassadors of the community.
Our health facilitators partner with the community health volunteers (Arogya Mitra) to raise consciousness around safe drinking Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH).
Catalyzing efficient health system:
The health of the urban poor is at risk due to an inefficient health system comprising of suboptimal local health centres, underperforming private health care providers (HCPs), and underutilized community ecosystem.
Americares improves efficiencies at the centre, of the HCPs, and with the community ecosystem.
We work with local health centres to build capacity and resilience of the health centre itself, based on the World Health Organization (WHO) building blocks of strong health systems.
We facilitate a sense of warmth, respect, compassion, and dignity patients experience from a caring health centre team.
We work with the local non-allopathic HCPs within urban slums to build their clinical capacity and improve the quality of care, through structured training and development programs.
We strengthen the bonding between the community and various local stakeholders including social health activists, charity organizations, and ancillary providers.
The Connection:
We ensure bidirectional engagement between the health centre and community and that with the larger health system for referral and support.
Position Rationale
Americares aspires to scale-up its ongoing programs and widen the program outreach in the coming years. This we believe will require building our programmatic capacity by bringing on board a senior development and public health professional with diverse programmatic experience, to build the team further.
Position Summary
The Director of Programs shall be responsible for the development and delivery of a robust program strategy in line with the organizational strategic plan. She/he will lead a diverse team of professionals who are part of the program implementation teams and provide leadership, vision, and inspiration to the associates and other departmental staff with an emphasis on creating team collaboration and cohesiveness.
Core Program focused responsibilities:
- Design robust program strategy to scale up & widen program outreach
- Scan macro environment to capture core insights to design outcome-driven, sustainable programs
- Lead program teams for effective program implementation and timely reporting
- Align & network with corporate and public funders
- Strengthen Americares position as an industry thought leader
- Develop robust proposals and focused reporting
- Provide technical know-how for all health-related aspects of programs
General Administrative Responsibilities:
- Guide & Supervise program staff in their day to day functioning
- Support program managers to set up SOPs and systems to develop impactful strategies
- Align work plan, budget, and activities across all the programs undertaken by Americares
- Share in knowledge dissemination, reporting, and communications
- Oversee data management and evaluation/implementation of new technology
- Work in tandem with the resource acquisition team for donor engagement
Desired Qualification & Experience
- Master of Public Health (MPH) with Medical degree (MBBS & Above) or Master of Public Health (MPH) with base degree & proven track record of minimum 6-8 years leading program function in a mid-size health-focused organization
- Age between 40-55 Years of age
- Minimum 12-15 years of programming experience in at least two mid-size organizations with Pan India presence
- Should have experience of building the programmatic capacity of an organization
- Should be part of the Leadership Team for more than three years
- Should have experience of participating in a strategic planning process for the organization
- Should be familiar with Public Health Practices in India
- Should have experience of leading large team size, of diverse configuration
Please send your resume to am************a@am*******s.org within one month from the date of the advertisement. Please mention your current and expected salary in your resume.
It is necessary to mention the post title in the subject line while applying. Selected candidates will be required to join within one month of selection. Only short-listed candidates will be notified.
Job Classification
Industry: NGO, Social Services, Regulators, Industry AssociationsFunctional Area: Medical, Healthcare, R&D, Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology,
Role Category: Medical Professional
Role: Medical Professional
Employement Type: Full time
Education
Under Graduation: Any Graduate in Any SpecializationPost Graduation: Medical-MS/MD in Public Health (Epidemiology)
Doctorate: Any Doctorate in Any Specialization
Contact Details:
Company: mericares IndiaAddress: Mumbai
Location(s): Mumbai
Website: https://www.americaresindia.org/
Keyskills: Public Health MBBS MPH maternal health child health strategic planning Medicine Emergency Programs Mobile Health Centre clinical services WASH community Health Healthcare Medical urban health Programs Director
Americares India
Registered as a public charitable trust in 2006, Americares India is a health-focused relief and development organization that responds to people affected by poverty or disaster with life-changing health programs, medicine, and medical supplies. When disaster, poverty, disease, or policy c...
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